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Thanks folks.
lawp,
I agree with you 100%. It is a goal of mine to start doing batches for that reason. However, I have knife ADD or ADHD or whatever the experts are calling it these days. I come up with new ideas and designs on a daily basis and I just get interested in one and off I go. I made a batch of 10 of a skinner design I posted a while back. I ground and heat treated the blades, did the finish grinding, but the blades are still sitting there waiting to be finished. I have about 20 other blades, heat treated and ground, some finish sanded, then put on a back burner while I start on a new idea. It's a problem. I have 4 knives I'm trying to finish before the holidays for customers and a KITH knife as well. And I'm still itching to start making some other knives I've drawn up recently. I don't skip steps when I'm working on a knife. But I do have a problem completing one knife at a time. But you are correct. Batches would help.
Augus7us,
I do about 90% of the handle shaping on the belt sander. Whatever passes I make on one side of the handle I try to duplicate on the other. Makes sense, right? I'm pretty good but I'm not THAT good. So I compare one side to the other with the contour gauge. I press the gauge firmly against the side of the handle with a small section of the gauge pins aligned in front of the handle. So when the pins record the shape of that side, the pins that fall in front of the handle form a notch that I can locate in the same place on the other side of the handle. I lay the gauge with the impression of the first side lightly against the other side in the same place, usually centered down the length of the handle. Now, if I see a gap somewhere on side B, then I need to remove some material in that same spot on side A. I remove a bit then take another impression and compare again. Repeat as necessary. I check a few times during hand sanding as well but by then the shape is pretty well established. Doesn't hurt to check.
lawp,
I agree with you 100%. It is a goal of mine to start doing batches for that reason. However, I have knife ADD or ADHD or whatever the experts are calling it these days. I come up with new ideas and designs on a daily basis and I just get interested in one and off I go. I made a batch of 10 of a skinner design I posted a while back. I ground and heat treated the blades, did the finish grinding, but the blades are still sitting there waiting to be finished. I have about 20 other blades, heat treated and ground, some finish sanded, then put on a back burner while I start on a new idea. It's a problem. I have 4 knives I'm trying to finish before the holidays for customers and a KITH knife as well. And I'm still itching to start making some other knives I've drawn up recently. I don't skip steps when I'm working on a knife. But I do have a problem completing one knife at a time. But you are correct. Batches would help.
Augus7us,
I do about 90% of the handle shaping on the belt sander. Whatever passes I make on one side of the handle I try to duplicate on the other. Makes sense, right? I'm pretty good but I'm not THAT good. So I compare one side to the other with the contour gauge. I press the gauge firmly against the side of the handle with a small section of the gauge pins aligned in front of the handle. So when the pins record the shape of that side, the pins that fall in front of the handle form a notch that I can locate in the same place on the other side of the handle. I lay the gauge with the impression of the first side lightly against the other side in the same place, usually centered down the length of the handle. Now, if I see a gap somewhere on side B, then I need to remove some material in that same spot on side A. I remove a bit then take another impression and compare again. Repeat as necessary. I check a few times during hand sanding as well but by then the shape is pretty well established. Doesn't hurt to check.